The Week Omarosa Took Over Late Night

What I wouldn’t give to not talk about Omarosa Manigault Newman ever again! I would love to write about Ryan Reynolds’s Tonight Show appearance, which was little more than protracted sponcon for his gin brand. I’d love to talk about Matt Groening’s return to late night after an 11-year absence.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Comedy Festivals in the U.S. and Around the Globe

Dozens of comedy festivals take place in the United States and around the world every year. Since comedy is experiencing a revival right now, comedy festivals are also booming. Netflix, HBO, and Showtime are coming out with new comedy programming all the time, and local comedians are empowered to do

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Aretha Franklin’s Voice Endures

Tell me what you want, reader. Tell me what moves you. Soul music is named “soul” both for where it comes from, and the places it speaks to, and few honored both of those geographies like Aretha Franklin, who had a voice which could raise bodies in a church, or

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9 Great Pop-Culture Gifts for August

Each month, Vulture staffers bring you the best — or at least most intriguing — pieces of pop-culture merchandise we come across. Here are our picks for August. Every editorial product is independently selected. If you buy an item through our links, Vulture may earn an affiliate commission.

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Disenchantment Does Not Cast a Spell

For the first 15 minutes of its first episode, Disenchantment seems like a promising fractured fairy tale dressed in the animation style of The Simpsons and Futurama. Created by Matt Groening, who famously gave birth to those aforementioned series, Disenchantment immediately introduces us to Bean (voiced by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson),

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Aretha Franklin’s Only TV Acting Appearance Was on Room 222 in 1972

The late Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s career was full of achievements, and though she played herself in many different appearances (including on Murphy Brown), she only ever acted once on television. She made a brief appearance, as MeTV points out, in ABC’s high-school series Room 222 in January of

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Glenn Close and The Wife Earn All of the Film’s Many Dramatic Fireworks

If you’re looking for an aspirational backdrop against which to set a domestic drama, you can do worse than the Nobel Prize ceremony. It has it all: highbrow glamour, an exotic locale, swanky banquets, and obscure enough proceedings that few viewers will be able to determine if you “got it

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Patti LaBelle Gives Aretha Franklin A Fitting Diva Send-Off, Puts Their Feud To Rest

For years, Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle were locked in a contentious diva-off, trading jabs and extremely shady (and GIF-able) moments. (Really, it was Jennifer Lopez–Mariah Carey level, for people of a certain age and with a collection of church hats.) But a good diva forgives her rivals, so after

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